A pillow, a good book, and a view that forever changed my perspective ...

A Door Way.  It is what we all are looking for, isn't?  A doorway that leads to a new perspective, a transformation, a new opportunity ...

When we remain open to the Universe, open to the Great Spirit, these doorways can appear in the most unlikely places.

I was walking along the ocean with intent.  My intent was perhaps to connect with a dolphin or two.  I was seeking out a new perspective.  This two month "unplugged" (for the most part) gift to myself is more than a break, it is to seek out direction, a new perspective and perhaps even a new doorway.

When we set an intention, we must remain open to how it will be fulfilled by the Cosmos.  It does not always come in the form we had expected it to.  Lost in the 'blueness' of the oceans water, the rippling of the soft waves against the shore line, and the stillness of the moment I could have missed the doorway, the experience of having my perspective changed in ways I could have never imagined.




The sands of time in a small reflective "puddle" had caught my attention.  I watched as the waves ebbed and flowed, shifting the pool over and over again.  Much as it had in a recent journey I recorded for my Fire In The Soul Tribe 7.  The horizon between the water and sky melded together as one blue as I drew my attention back to this tiny pool.

Finally, drawing myself back to this time, this space, the walk and search for something spectacular went on.  I knew that the sands of time were trying to reveal something, thus, it must be extraordinary.  Right?  Isn't that the way things happen?  A spectacular moment.  A stoppage of time.  A grand theater stage plays out a great drama that is full of action portrayed by a hero and a victim being rescued?

As we turned the corner, a woman perhaps in her 30's was climbing down from a tree.  Something about the tree caught my attention.  Compared to the other trees it seemed alive.  Vibrant, as though you could see the sap flowing through its "veins".  I immediately slipped back into the sands of time and the journey - A tree that extended beyond the horizon into the Upper Worlds.  As strange as it may seem, I had to wonder was this the tree?  In the middle of a public area?  Where people passed by every day?  I had to touch it.  I had to feel its aliveness.  Feel the sap coursing through it.

It was though there was a portal to the heaven's.  Amazing.  As I savored the moment becoming one with the tree, feeling her aliveness, inhaling the embrace of her spirit within, I also knew that the woman who I watched climbing down from the tree was watching.

After a very short conversation, I was invited into her home.

A series of small door ways that lead to some spectacular spaces.  I will simply leave you with the pictures.

And so the "living room" where I first saw the woman.  A pillow, a good book, and a view that forever changed my perspective....

We must be open to the doorways, where ever the Universe reveals them.  While, at the request of the woman who allowed me to enter her 'home', I am not sharing the whole story with you of how she came to find this incredible tree with this amazing view as her own, what I will share is ...

It is all about perspective.  It is all about what we choose in life to see.  While some may reflect upon this woman and see a homeless woman, I will share her perspective.  See baths every day in the healing waters of the ocean.  Her view is one people pay 'millions' to have.  She connects with nature in a way few ever will.  As a result, her tree is alive like I have never felt before.  She falls asleep to the sound of birds aria song every night.  Dolphins come when all is calm to share with her.  She is debt free to society and does not live by a clock.  She lives by the natural cycle of nature.  Her choice ... perhaps not to be homeless but as she is, her choice in her words is "it is how you see things.  If I see it as a victim of the economy and how hard life is, suppose you could get depressed and angry.  But when I had a house and job, I was depressed and angry.  So I see it as a gift in many ways.  A new life.  Not sure I would go back if I could, but if I get the chance I know one thing for sure.  I would go about it vastly different.  I would not have debt.  I would not have a job where it had to be the center thing in life.  I would spend more time, like I do now, by the ocean with the dolphins and the trees."

A new perspective, a new door way, and a living sands of time journey ....